🧩 Philosophy 19h ago · Maria Popova

How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse

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How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse
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You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off to cause harm and havoc as the rest of you watches helplessly, wincing. You know the next moment, too — the desperate wish for an undo button you know cannot be had, no matter your protestations and prostrations.
It is a seductive dream, to have an unregetting life, but it is also a dangerous dream, for it dooms us to the living nightmare of perfection, that punitive negatio

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